 January 3 - $4 Billion in Supplemental Appropriations Sought |
| January 10 - Foreign Affairs: Military Aid - Including Contra Money - Is Priority |
| January 10 - Partisanship Marks Launching of Iran Panels |
| January 10 - Report Confirms Arms-for-Hostages Goal |
| January 17 - 'Security Aid' Totals, Fiscal 1986-88 |
| January 17 - Carter's Iran Dealings: A Valid Comparison? |
| January 17 - Hill Drumbeats Increase for a Reagan Apology |
| January 17 - Texts of Administration Documents Justifying Arms-for-Hostages Deal |
| January 24 - 'It's Not an Easy Task': Staffing, Paper Flow Pose Delays For House, Senate Investigations |
| January 24 - Draft Report: Finding Fault With Reagan Aides |
| January 31 - Conflicts Loom Between Counsel, Probers Over Granting of Immunity to Witnesses |
| January 31 - Policy Made by 'Amateurs': Senate Report Lays Out Details Of Iran, Contra Arms Dealings |
| January 31 - Senators Offer Bill Requiring SALT II Compliance |
| January 31 - The Israel Link: Questions, but No Blame |
| February 7 - Casey's Successor to Face Hill Scrutiny of CIA |
| February 7 - Fallout From Iran Scandal: New Standoff Shaping Up Over Contra Aid |
| February 7 - GOP Probers of Nixon and Watergate Look Back on the Fame - and the Scars |
| February 7 - Reagan Inquiry: A Hot Spot for Republicans |
| February 7 - Subpoenas Issued: After Delays Over Staff, Data, Panels Begin the Real Probing |
| February 14 - A Who's Who of the Major Players |
| February 14 - Beyond the Welter of Facts, More Questions |
| February 14 - Chronology of Events in the Iran-Contra Affair |
| February 14 - Tower Panel Checking for Cover-Up |
| February 21 - CIA Nominee Gets Tough Reception on Hill |
| February 21 - Democrats Disenchanted With Rebels: Senate Panel Votes to Cut Off All U.S. Funds for the Contras |
| February 21 - Israelis Agree to Provide Information... ...To Congressional Iran-Contra Probes |
| February 21 - Leadership Reform or More 'Soap Opera'? |
| February 28 - A White House Effort to 'Blur' Reagan's Role |
| February 28 - Court Challenge: Block Thrown at Counsels |
| February 28 - Excerpts From Tower Report On Inquiry Into Iran-Contra |
| February 28 - Foreign Policy Notes: Congress Hesitant to Approve Boosts in Overseas Assistance |
| February 28 - In Trouble: Nomination of Gates for CIA |
| February 28 - Job for Capitol Hill: Select Committees Will Try to Fill in Remaining Gaps |
| February 28 - New Chief of Staff: Former Sen. Baker to Succeed Regan at White House |
| February 28 - Shultz, Dodd Tangle Over Policy Making |
| February 28 - The Contra Connection: A Picture Emerges of North and His Shadowy Network |
| February 28 - The NSC: The Established Policy Channels Were 'Largely Ignored' |
| February 28 - Tower Commission Report Highlights |
| February 28 - Tower Panel Lays Out Reagan Policy Failures |
| February 28 - Unfolding of a Flawed Policy: Despite Claims to Contrary, It Was 'Arms for Hostages' |
| March 7 - Accounting of Earlier Funds Sought: House Democrats Moving to Halt Contra Aid |
| March 7 - Administration Tries Again With Webster: Gates' Nomination to Head CIA Withdrawn |
| March 7 - Aid to Pakistan Hits New Obstacles |
| March 7 - Congress Quick to Welcome Webster Appointment |
| March 7 - Legislators at Mercy of Policy Makers: When White House Secrecy Blocks Oversight |
| March 7 - Prerogatives at Heart of Issue: Idea of Joint Intelligence Panel Pits Secrecy Against Oversight |
| March 7 - Reagan Takes 'Responsibility' for 'Mistake' |
| March 7 - With Special Prosecutor Law Under Attack... ...Walsh Takes Refuge in Justice Department |
| March 14 - Deaver, North Suits Dismissed: Special Prosecutor Law Wins Round One |
| March 14 - Europe, Africa Fund Boost Rejected: House Panel Backs Special Aid For Allies in Central America |
| March 14 - Hearings Slip to Mid-May: Hill Panels, Special Counsel Wrestle With Immunity Issues |
| March 14 - Israel Promoted Key Figure: Spy Case Leads to Trouble Among Friends |
| March 14 - Real Battle Shaping Up Later: House, in a Symbolic Action, Votes Contra Aid Moratorium |
| March 14 - The Peace Option to Get a Fresh Airing... ...In Upcoming Talks on Regional Plan |
| March 21 - First News Conference in Four Months: Reagan Stands By Statements On Handling of Arms Dealings |
| March 21 - House Panels Freeze Foreign Aid Programs |
| March 21 - Poindexter Refuses to Testify On Computer Security Policy |
| March 21 - Public Hearings to Start May 5: Select Panels Combine Activities, Set Immunity |
| March 21 - Reagan Urged to Back Peace Talks: Contra Aid Survives in Senate, But Outlook for More Is Dim |
| March 21 - Text of March 19 News Conference: The President and the Press: Focus on Iran-Contra Affair |
| March 28 - House Panel Pares Funding for State Department |
| March 28 - Panels Plod Ahead With Pre-Hearing Agenda |
| March 28 - Supplemental Totals (chart) |
| March 28 - Three Cloture Votes Fail: Moratorium on Contra Funds Runs Aground in the Senate |
| April 4 - Disputes Dim the Future of Foreign Aid Bill |
| April 4 - Embargo on Arms Sales to South Africa: Israel, Other Countries Named As Violators of Weapons Ban |
| April 4 - Panel Set to Query New CIA Chief |
| April 4 - Responding With 'Magic Slates': Marine Spy Case Fuels Fears For Moscow Embassy Security |
| April 4 - Two More Secretaries Getting Immunity |
| April 11 - Focus on Spying, Lack of Supervision: Embassy Security Lapses Spur New Inquiries |
| April 11 - In the Minutiae Department, an Opium Fix |
| April 11 - Members Urge Changes in Arms Sales to Saudis |
| April 11 - Select Panels to See Reagan Notes |
| April 11 - Senators Warn Panama, Albeit Weakly... ...To Toughen Efforts Against Drug Traffic |
| April 11 - Strong Administration Opposition: House Panel Drafts a Pared-Down Aid Bill |
| April 11 - Webster Questioned on Iran-Contra Matter |
| April 18 - Embassy Spying Scandal Widens |
| April 18 - Panel Loses Round on Bank Records |
| April 18 - Putting a Time on 'Timely' Notice: House Members Try to Tighten Strings on 'Covert' Operations |
| April 25 - A Rich History: Probes Have Been Potent Tool on Hill |
| April 25 - Agenda Overshadowed: Hearings Add to Tension Between Hill and White House |
| April 25 - Countdown Begins For Special Iran Hearings |
| April 25 - Getting Ready: Iran Panel Members Balance Homework, Other Duties |
| April 25 - Less Than Administration Wants: $11.1 Billion for Foreign Aid Is Approved by Senate Panel |
| April 25 - The Network: Scores of Firms Were Entangled in Iran-Contra Web |
| April 25 - The People: A Who's Who of Participants in the Arms Dealings |
| May 2 - Administration and Hill Weigh Request... ...By Pakistan for Advanced Radar Planes |
| May 2 - Contra Fund-Raiser Pleads Guilty, Names North |
| May 2 - Effort to Improve Floor Prospects: Republicans on House Panel Try to Revise Foreign Aid Bill |
| May 2 - One Option: Tear Down New Moscow Building Capitol Hill Moving to Counter Soviet Espionage at Embassies |
| May 2 - Panel OKs $9.4 Billion Add-On Spending Bill |
| May 2 - Senate Panel Backs Webster Nomination... ...After Questions on Contacts With North |
| May 2 - The Contra Money Flow: Answers Anticipated |
| May 9 - Another Guilty Plea in Walsh's Iran-Contra Probe |
| May 9 - Behind the Bright Lights, Light Moments |
| May 9 - Despite Atmosphere of Bipartisanship... ...Members Divide on Political Agendas |
| May 9 - Excerpts of Testimony From First Three Days: Iran-Contra Hearings Open, Secord Testifies Before Panel |
| May 9 - Hearings Begin With Look at Secord Network |
| May 9 - Hollings Lifts 'Hold' on Webster Nomination |
| May 9 - The Money: How Much, and Where Did It Go? |
| May 16 - Another Day, Another $10 Million |
| May 16 - Confusing Policy Is Laid to Boland Law |
| May 16 - Documents Show Congress Was Misled: Memos Detail North's Role in Contra Network |
| May 16 - Excerpts From Congressional Hearings: Secord, McFarlane Testify Before Iran-Contra Panel |
| May 16 - Helping Contras 'Body and Soul': Unfolding Story of Arms Deals Points to Active Reagan Role |
| May 16 - More Than 'Milk and Cookies' |
| May 16 - Senate Panel OKs State Department Bill |
| May 16 - U.S. Won't Let Illegal Salvadorans Stay |
| May 23 - 'Thank You, Ollie North' |
| May 23 - Boland Amendments: A Review |
| May 23 - Links in Contra Arms Network Tell Their Stories |
| May 23 - Saudi Arms Sale Delayed After Gulf Incident |
| May 23 - Senate Confirms Webster for CIA |
| May 23 - The Other Iran-Contra Agenda: Reagan Allies Using Hearings As Platform to Boost His Policy |
| May 23 - Week Three of Iran-Contra Hearings: The Courier and the Contra Testify Before Special Panel |
| May 30 - Major Provisions, 1987 Supplemental Funding Bill |
| May 30 - Panel Looks at Contra Aid, Record-Keeping |
| May 30 - State Department, CIA Roles: Web of Contra Supply Effort Seems to Touch More Officials |
| May 30 - The Hearings: A Political Truth or Consequences |
| June 6 - 'Literally Correct, Perhaps Misleading' |
| June 6 - 'Reflagging' of Oil Tankers at Issue: Hill Demonstrates Its Unease Over Policy in the Persian Gulf |
| June 6 - 'The Enterprise': A Count of the Cash Flow |
| June 6 - 'Tomas Castillo' Tells of Broader Role: Congress to Take a Closer Look at CIA's Role |
| June 6 - Attempt Fails to Block Honduran Arms Sale |
| June 6 - Foreign Aid, Arms Control, Immigration Issues: House-Senate Disputes Likely Over Fiscal 1987 Supplemental |
| June 6 - Hearings Produce Revelations, Recriminations |
| June 6 - Iran-Contra Panel Confronts Administration Officials: Testimony Raises Questions: Were the CIA, State Dept.Involved in the Contra War? |
| June 13 - Challenge to Prosecutor Continues |
| June 13 - Commerce, Justice, State and Others: House Appropriations Panels Start Doling Out FY '88 Funds |
| June 13 - Conferees Split Over Fiscal 1987 Funding Bill |
| June 13 - Faced With Mounting Hill Opposition... ...Reagan Withdraws Saudi Missile Sale |
| June 13 - Funding Level Kept Secret: House Passes Intelligence Bill;Extends Covert Contra Aid Ban |
| June 13 - Panels Take a Breather to Sort Out New Findings |
| June 13 - The Secrets Game: Keeping the Lid On... ...When Everyone Already Seems to Know |
| June 13 - Third Witness Describes Dead-End Investigation: Hakim, Hall Defend North; 'No-Questions-Asked' Policy |
| June 13 - Those Who Testified: A Varying Cast |
| June 13 - Unnecessary Risks, Insufficient Force? Hill Continues Barrage on Reagan's Gulf Policy |
| June 20 - 90-Day Delay of Escort Plan? House Democrats to Challenge Reagan's Persian Gulf Strategy |
| June 20 - House Votes to Thwart Soviet Embassy Move |
| June 20 - Nature of the Threat in the Persian Gulf... ...Defines Military's Options to Respond |
| June 20 - Panel Backs ACDA Reauthorization |
| June 20 - Secord's Secretaries Tell of Shredding: North Tosses Monkey Wrench Into Capitol Hill Investigation |
| June 20 - Some Agreements Reached in Private: Cost, SALT Provisions Slow Supplemental Bill |
| June 27 - 'Goodwill Games' Spark Sharp Exchange |
| June 27 - Called 'Woefully Inadequate': Panel OKs Commerce, Justice, State Funding |
| June 27 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart) |
| June 27 - Iran-Contra Network Apparently Gave North Some Expensive Home Protection |
| June 27 - John Poindexter: In a World of 'Shades of Gray,' What Did Reagan Know? |
| June 27 - North's Home Security System; Missiles to Iran -- June 23-24, 1987 |
| June 27 - Oliver North: Zealot or Hero, He Has the Story Everyone Waits to Hear |
| June 27 - Panels Hear of Cover-Up, Await the Main Event |
| June 27 - Questions for Lt. Col. North |
| June 27 - Questions for the Admiral |
| June 27 - Senate Bill Cuts State Department Sharply |
| June 27 - State Department Bill Passed Despite Battles |
| July 4 - Across-the-Board Cut Approved: House Votes $13.8 Billion Bill For Commerce, Justice, State |
| July 4 - Arms Control Agency Bill Advances |
| July 4 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart) |
| July 4 - Congress Clears Supplemental Spending Bill |
| July 4 - Hill Delays Decision on Bug-Riddled Embassy |
| July 4 - Major Provisions of Supplemental Funding Bill |
| July 4 - Missiles to Iran; Officials' Cover-Up Efforts |
| July 4 - Oliver L. North Debriefed, Will Testify July 7 |
| July 4 - Republicans Hold Off Critics of 'Reflagging' |
| July 11 - Former Rep. Loeffler to Lead Contra Lobby Effort |
| July 11 - North Defends His Role in Iran-Contra Dealings |
| July 11 - North Insists He Never Sought Personal Gain |
| July 11 - Points Finger at Abrams, Casey, Meese, Others: Saying He Followed Orders, North Defends Covert Actions |
| July 11 - Showing Charm, Tough Determination... ...North Charges Up Public Relations Hill |
| July 11 - Subpoenas in Contra Drug Inquiry |
| July 11 - The Defense Lawyer: Taking the Offensive |
| July 18 - Aide 'Went Over the Line...to an Operational Role': McFarlane Disputes North on Marching Orders |
| July 18 - Focus Kept on Iran-Contra Facts, Legalities: Democrats Sidestep Debate Over Contra Aid |
| July 18 - Moves to Block Ship 'Reflagging' Rejected in Senate |
| July 18 - Panel Lectures North: McFarlane Rebuts North, Poindexter Shields Reagan |
| July 18 - Poindexter: 'The Buck Stops Here With Me' |
| July 18 - Public Sympathy Proves Effective Shield... ...For North Against Committee Critics |
| July 25 - 'Battle Royal' Over Iran Arms Sales: Shultz Tells of Deceit, Infighting at White House |
| July 25 - Bipartisan Comity Becomes a Casualty... ...In Political Battle Over Reagan Policies |
| July 25 - Calling It Quits: Three Offers |
| July 25 - Congressional Panels Voice Concern: Nuclear-Materials Incident Jeopardizes Aid to Pakistan |
| July 25 - Negotiations Prove Fruitless: Defense Stalemate Drags On; Nunn Threatens to Drop Bill |
| July 25 - Poindexter Ends Testimony, Says Actions Were Justified |
| July 25 - Poindexter, Shultz: Grist for Further Battles |
| July 25 - Senate Passes Intelligence Bill |
| July 25 - Shultz Takes the Stand |
| July 25 - U.S. Ships Escort 'Reflagged' Kuwaiti Tankers: Senate Lodges Indirect Protest to Gulf Policy |
| August 1 - Adelman Quitting Arms Control Post |
| August 1 - New Rules at Intelligence Committee: Leahy's Departure From Panel Followed a Leak to a Reporter |
| August 1 - Pentagon Reportedly Beefs Up Role in Gulf |
| August 1 - Plan to Nick Israel Fails: House Panel Makes Major Cuts In Foreign Aid Appropriations |
| August 1 - Reagan's Senior Cabinet Members Testify |
| August 1 - Select Committee Members: a Curtain Call |
| August 1 - Senate Wants New Embassy Agreement |
| August 1 - When It All Unraveled: Some Insiders' Views |
| August 8 - Adding Funding for Base-Rights Countries: Foreign Affairs Panel ApprovesA New Authorization Measure |
| August 8 - Cast of Witnesses: After Intermission, Drama |
| August 8 - Committee Approves Foreign Aid Funds |
| August 8 - Hearings Leave Reagan Down but Not Out |
| August 8 - House Foreign Aid Revisions (chart) |
| August 8 - Legal Loopholes: Reagan Promises Congress He'll Tighten Covert Rules |
| August 8 - Panel Leaders Make Closing Comments: Public Iran-Contra Hearings End With Regan, Weinberger |
| August 8 - Sidestepping a Mine Field: Executive Privilege |
| August 8 - The Issue Ahead: Will Peace Plans Head Off Fight Over New Contra Aid? |
| August 8 - The Process of Writing a Final Report... ...Promises Closed-Door Political Struggle |
| August 15 - Arias' Plan Has Yet to Bring Real Peace... ...To the Political Factions on Capitol Hill |
| August 15 - Cloture Vote Slated on Stalled Nomination |
| August 15 - Foreign Aid Spending, Fiscal 1988 (chart) |
| August 15 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Foreign Policy |
| August 15 - Reagan: 'Stubborn' in Policy That Went Astray |
| August 15 - Unprotected Programs Take a Hit: House Panel Makes Deep Cuts In Foreign-Assistance Funding |
| August 22 - Administration Weighs New Saudi Arms Sale |
| August 22 - CIA Aide Points to a Hands-on Role by Casey |
| August 22 - Walsh Wins Rounds on Records, Role |
| August 29 - Contras Ask for Military Aid 'in Escrow' |
| August 29 - In Case of Emergency, Wring and Kneel |
| August 29 - Testimony Sheds New Light on North's Role |
| September 5 - Dole Jousts With Ortega in Managua |
| September 5 - Doubts About North, Secord Revealed: Iran-Contra Panels Release Testimony of CIA Officials |
| September 5 - New Aid Benefits in Prospect: Cancellation of Israeli Fighter Won't Bring Windfall to U.S. |
| September 12 - Ads or Guns? 'A Semantic Exercise' |
| September 12 - Ambassador Finally Wins Confirmation |
| September 12 - Fresh Iran-Contra Evidence Fuels Questions About Bush |
| September 12 - Gregg, Watson Testimony Released: Bush Not Told About Contra Resupply Effort, Advisers Say |
| September 12 - New Contra Aid: Political Pitfall for Reagan? |
| September 12 - No Request Yet to Fund Gulf Convoy |
| September 19 - Wright Steers Middle Course on Contra Aid |
| September 26 - Arias Sounds Call for Peace, End to Contra Aid |
| September 26 - Iran-Contra Affair: Who Proposed the Diversion? Israelis Point Finger at North |
| September 26 - Reagan U.N. Speech Focuses on World Peace |
| September 26 - Refugee Amendment Added by Hatfield: Senate Panel OKs Funding Bill For Commerce, Justice, State |
| September 26 - Stopgap Bill, Including Contra Aid, Clears |
| October 3 - FOREIGN POLICY NOTES |
| October 3 - Iran-Contra Panels Release Testimony: Former NSC Adviser Ledeen Recounts Arms Deal Details |
| October 3 - Iran-Contra Testimony: Reagan Team Missed Chance For Iran Diplomatic Opening |
| October 3 - Reagan Urged to Reconsider Saudi Arms Sale |
| October 3 - Reagan Wants No New South Africa Sanctions |
| October 3 - Senate Opens Debate on State Department Bill |
| October 3 - Senators Aim to Avert Future Iran-Contra Deals |
| October 3 - Ways and Means OKs Ban on Imports From Iran |
| October 10 - F-15 Fighters, But No Mavericks: Congress Again Forces Reagan To Modify Saudi Weapons Sale |
| October 10 - Organization of American States Address: President Praises Peace Plan, Vows Support for the Contras |
| October 10 - Reagan, Critics Face Off Over Nicaragua Plan |
| October 10 - Senate Votes State Department Bill |
| October 10 - Support Mozambique's Government, or Insurgents? Reagan, Conservatives in Unusual Policy Split |
| October 17 - $14.3 Billion Appropriated: Commerce, Justice, State Funding Approved |
| October 17 - Adm. Crowe: Limit Military at NSC |
| October 17 - Commerce, Justice, State Funding (chart) |
| October 17 - Senators Load Up State Department Measure |
| October 17 - Waiting for Central America Peace Deadline: Pressure Builds on All Sides in Contra Conflict |
| October 24 - Controversy Over Soviet Embassy |
| October 24 - Democrats Press FEC on Contra-Ads Inquiry |
| October 24 - Iran-Contra Report Delayed |
| October 24 - Persian Gulf and Congress: A Chronology |
| October 24 - Reagan Team Faulted on South Africa |
| October 24 - Senate Shows Its Ambivalence in Votes on Gulf |
| October 31 - A Seesawing Policy on Pakistan Aid |
| October 31 - Contra Aid: Small Doses, for Now |
| October 31 - Curb Nuclear Weapons or Curb Soviet Influence? Pakistan Leads U.S. Into Conflict of Policies |
| October 31 - New Contra Politics: Wright the Dominant Force |
| October 31 - Panama Canal Commission Reauthorized by House |
| October 31 - Reagan Bans Imports From Iran |
| October 31 - Vagaries of Guatemala Peace Agreement... ...Leave Room for Disputes Over Key Points |
| October 31 - Wright: Peace Gamble Poses Political Risks |
| November 7 - Indirect Negotiations With Rebels: Reversal by Nicaraguan Leader Darkens Picture for Contra Aid |
| November 7 - Political Stability Masks Problems in El Salvador |
| November 7 - Senate Panel OKs Viets Nomination - Again |
| November 7 - Split Politically, Panels to Issue Iran Report |
| November 14 - Conferees Agree on Intelligence Authorization |
| November 14 - Excerpts From Nov. 9 OAS Address: Reagan Says Peace Plan Lags in Nicaragua |
| November 14 - Frustration With Reagan Policy in South Africa: Apartheid Foes Look to New Sanctions in 1988 |
| November 14 - Nicaragua Peace Process Moves to Capitol Hill |
| November 14 - Ortega Vows to Comply With Peace Plan |
| November 21 - Bulk of Provisions Are Secret: Intelligence Bill Includes Steps For a Closer Watch on Soviets |
| November 21 - Cash Flow for the Secord-Hakim 'Enterprise' (chart) |
| November 21 - Excerpts From Majority Report: 'Secrecy, Deception, Disdain' Ruled Iran-Contra Policies |
| November 21 - Excerpts From Minority View: Minority Lambastes Majority's 'Political Bias' |
| November 21 - Report Deals Another Blow to Reagan Record |
| November 21 - Senate Action Seen as Unlikely: House Takes Up Foreign Aid Authorization Bill |
| November 21 - Shoring Up Reagan: Republicans' Dissent Decries 'Hysterical Conclusions' |
| November 21 - Shultz, Wright: A Truce on Contra Diplomacy |
| November 21 - The 'Enterprise': Report Fleshes Out the Story of Shady Arms Dealings |
| November 21 - The Hill Committees' Verdict: Highlights |
| November 28 - INF Pact to Sweeten Reagan-Gorbachev Summit |
| November 28 - Regional Issues: Also on the Summit Agenda: Afghan, Persian Gulf Conflicts |
| November 28 - U.S.-Soviet Summits of the Past (chart) |
| December 5 - 'Debt Reform' Offers Boon to Some Nations |
| December 5 - Before the Ink Is Dry, Key Senate Players... ...Are Preparing for Debate on INF Treaty |
| December 5 - Conciliation Colors the Pre-Summit Picture |
| December 5 - Conferees Make Progress on State Department Bill |
| December 5 - Faced With Long Odds in the House: Republicans Fold Their Hands On Contra Aid - for Present |
| December 5 - Foreign Aid Spending, Fiscal 1988 (chart) |
| December 5 - Several Floor Fights in Prospect: Budget Deal Softens the Blow to Foreign Aid |
| December 12 - ...And a Required Report on Visas to Soviets |
| December 12 - Afghanistan, Human Rights: Reagan, Gorbachev Agree on Little More Than Good Will |
| December 12 - Apart From the 'Hell, No' Votes, Senate Likely to Concur |
| December 12 - Conflicts of Prerogative: Over War Powers... |
| December 12 - Dec. 3 Interview With TV Anchors: Reagan Previews U.S.-Soviet Summit |
| December 12 - House Extends Life of Iran-Contra Panel |
| December 12 - House Passes Foreign Aid Authorization Bill |
| December 12 - Old Adversaries Turn to Pragmatic Diplomacy |
| December 12 - On SDI and Cutting Long-Range Missiles... ...A Combination of Punting and Progress |
| December 12 - Reagan Television Address Caps Summit Week |
| December 12 - Signed Dec. 8: Text of Treaty on Intermediate-Range Missiles |
| December 12 - Summit a 'Clear Success,' Reagan Says... ...But Gorbachev Says More Work Ahead |
| December 12 - Summit Summary: Joint Communique Lays Out Talking Points |
| December 12 - Text of Reagan, Gorbachev Comments: Superpowers Sign INF Treaty, Join In TV Address to Nations |
| December 12 - Vehicle for Foreign Policy Amendments: Ironing Out Many Differences, Conferees Back State Measure |
| December 19 - A Key Change in Immigration Law |
| December 19 - Administration Unhappy With Congressional Strings: Congress Clears State Department Measure |
| December 19 - Bush a 'Solid' Backer of Iran Arms Sales |
| December 19 - Compromise on Pakistan Assistance: Military Programs Take Hits As Hill Cuts Back Foreign Aid |
| December 19 - Defector's Story Alters Political Picture: Wrangling Over Contra Aid Sets Stage for Battle in 1988 |
| December 19 - Nicaraguan Defector Outlines Arms Buildup |
| December 19 - Notice to Hill Within 48 Hours: Senate Panel Votes to Tighten Procedures on Covert Actions |
| December 19 - Senate Confirms NSC Adviser Powell in Rank |
| December 26 - A Complex Deal on Delivery of Supplies... ...And Procedures for Seeking More Aid |
| December 26 - A Hill-State Department Impasse |
| December 26 - Foreign Aid Appropriations, Fiscal 1988 (chart) |
| December 26 - Hill Softens the Blow to Development Programs: Foreign Aid Funding Escapes Drastic Cutbacks |
| December 26 - Hill, Reagan Compromise on Aid to Contras |
| December 26 - The 100th Congress: Foreign Policy |
